Despite prognostications that the Internet is about to collapse from the weight of traffic growth -- especially video -- international Internet traffic grew 53 percent between mid-2007 and mid-2008, down from 61 percent the preceding year, according to a market research firm.
The era of the American Internet is ending.
Invented by American computer scientists during the 1970s, the Internet has been embraced around the globe. During the network's first three decades, most Internet traffic flowed through the United States. In many cases, data sent between two locations within a given country also passed through the United States.
A study this week has revealed the slow rate of adoption for IPv6, the next version of the Internet's main communications protocol, and some experts say black markets where companies trade unused IP addresses may be only a few years away.
The report, from Arbor Networks, claims to be the most comprehensive study of IPv6 use to date. It includes few surprises for those who follow the area closely, but the results provide a sobering measure of how slowly the technology has been adopted.
While U.S. broadband providers continue to boost speeds for their subscribers, they still are falling behind the broadband deployment efforts of many other nations, according to survey of 230,000 U.S. Internet users.
BT is throttling all of its broadband customers' bandwidth at peak times, not just heavy users, according to independent monitoring data.
Early findings from a new hardware-based monitoring project by ISP analysis outfit Samknows show that even customers who use their connection lightly have non-port 80 traffic slowed to about 15 per cent of the normal speed in the evening, when load on BT's network is high.
Singapore aims to become the world leader in ''ultra high-speed broadband networking,'' offering data to the home of at a speed of one gigabit per second, assistant chief executive for infrastructure development for the Infocomm Development Authority (iDA) Khoong Hock Yun said last week. He was speaking at the formal opening of an innovation centre belonging to storage and data management company NetApp, although he didn't give a timeframe for when the ''ultra-band'' net would be rolled out, other than by using the expression ''in a few years.''
Anyone who uses the internet needs to be aware of deep packet inspection, its uses and potential misuses.
You may recognise deep packet inspection (DPI) as something internet service providers (ISPs) use to conform to the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (Calea), the US government-ordered internet wire-tapping directive. If that's not enough, DPI, albeit behind the scenes, allows ISPs to block, shape, and prioritise traffic, which is now fuelling the net-neutrality-versus-traffic-priority debate. So, what is DPI and how does it work?
A massive project to redesign and rebuild the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in government funding and donations of network capacity by two major research organizations.
Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up since the Internet's birth in 1969.
4Chan.org, a series of image boards known for controversial content, has been shut down by a distributed denial of service attack.
I know what you're thinking: What else is new? Hackers and others who can't stand its messages have frequently targeted the image forums on 4Chan.org. But as a fan of 4Chan, it saddens me to see such a funny (though oftentimes off-color) collective go offline again - yet I know that this won't be the last time it happens.
The number of sites on the internet has topped one trillion, says Google.
The search giant said that its databases have catalogued the mammoth number by counting URLs, recording each link within a page. The milestone number comes ten years after Google revealed its first site tally, which recorded some 26 million sites. By 2000, that number had grown to one billion.
